Jake Dickson

Dec 5, 2024 | barbend.com | Jake Dickson

Karlos Nasar will probably win the 2024 World Weightlifting Championships (WWC). Nasar, 20, won gold at the 2024 Olympics this summer and set a few new world records in the process. The 2024 WWC runs from Dec. 6 to 15 in Manama, Bahrain, and will also hold a meeting of the International Weightlifting Federation’s Congress to draft revised rules for the next Olympic qualification period.

Dec 2, 2024 | barbend.com | Jake Dickson

If you want to build muscle, you need two things — a will and a way. If you’re on the hunt for every tip and trick you can get to maximize your time in the weight room, you’ve got the will. Phil Heath has the ways; more specifically, three of them. Heath, dubbed “the Gift” for his incredible genetic propensity to build muscle, was the most prolific bodybuilding athlete of the 2010s, winning the Mr. Olympia competition seven times in a row.

Nov 30, 2024 | barbend.com | Jake Dickson

Jeremy Buendia credits upping his meal frequency from five to six daily meals with elevating his physique. It’s a common refrain to hear from a competitive bodybuilder, much less a four-time winner of the Men’s Physique Olympia. Buendia’s endorsement of higher meal frequencies reads like the kind of advice you’d see in a muscle-building magazine in the 2000s. After almost two decades of online proliferation, bodybuilding advice about meal frequency has largely gone the way of the dodo bird.

Nov 29, 2024 | barbend.com | Jake Dickson

When it comes to building muscle, all roads lead to Rome — the bodybuilding exercises you perform in your workouts are almost entirely up to you. Almost every time someone says you must do this exercise or that, they’re trying to sell you something. You must do some version of a lateral raise if you’re a bodybuilder; IFBB pro, amateur, or otherwise. Here’s why. The lateral raise is a must-do bodybuilding exercise because it trains a small muscle with a niche functionality.

Nov 28, 2024 | barbend.com | Gabrielle Fundaro |Jake Dickson

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, which means packing your plate to the brim with the essentials, and then going back for seconds. And then thirds. When it’s all said and done, you’re good and satisfied and in need of a way to reduce bloating. We’re sick of feeling stuffed on, and after, Thanksgiving, so we recruited an expert to provide some easy, accessible workouts that can help reduce bloating. Don’t get us wrong — the holidays are a time for rest and relaxation.